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The question of whether proper names of people and places have a rightful place in a dictionary is probably an obsolete one: their presence was formerly justified on the grounds that as “words” they are far more frequent than many of the “legitimate” words, like elytron, greave, or mithridatism . That might be justifiable if there were accurate frequency information available.
One doesn't wish to deny anyone his rightful share of grandiloquence, but there is a hazard here.
Scott claims that "Groening's willing, if somewhat ironic, embrace of the marketing bonanza his creation has unleashed may have cost him his rightful spot in the the Comics Journal 's highbrow/subculture pantheon."
Keyes filed papers earlier this year demanding that Kansas return portions of the state to the rightful ownership of the Republic of Texas.
With astonishing sums of money sloshing around the economy and Japanese products considered world-beaters everywhere, it seemed to the Japanese that the nation had finally achieved its rightful place in the world.